Copy Settings Wizard

The Copy Settings Wizard saves, restores, and propagates system settings to users, computers, or profiles.

When you select options for the SolidWorks software, those settings are saved in a registry file, and the software recognizes the settings from one release of SolidWorks to the next. For most users, no action is necessary to maintain their settings. However, you can use the Copy Settings Wizard to distribute settings.

You can Save or Restore system settings for:

Keyboard shortcuts

Menu customization

System options

Toolbar layout (All toolbars or Macro toolbar only)

You save settings to a file and then restore them to the following registries:

Profile

Registry

Current user

CURRENT_USER of current user

One or more network computers

LOCAL_MACHINE of selected computers

One or more roaming user profiles

CURRENT_USER of selected users

Only system administrators should copy settings to network computers or roaming user profiles. When you restore settings to network computers, the settings apply to new SolidWorks users on the specified computers. You can restore settings to roaming user profiles only if your company uses roaming user profiles.

To save system settings:

Optionally, exit SolidWorks.

You can save settings while SolidWorks is running but any options set during the current session are not saved.